Blue clock light

[XR6-VCT-2000]

Well after modding all the interior lights in my car to blue led's , i decided i didn't like the light spread behind the odo/dte lcd and the clock lcd.

Due to the small angle of bright light produced by the led's ( about 30 degrees ) , the clock and odo/dte lcd came up very bright around the led and darker around the edges ( allthough was still bright ) , just the bright dot of the led's were sorta more visible through the lcd's. The clock was the worse as it only has 1 globe hole / i originally mounted 1 led in there , the 1 led combined with the concave defuser lense in the clock resulted in a bright dot in the centre of the clock and the edges very dark .

I just finished re-doing the clock again earlier today , i ended up popping it open (easy) and mounting 3x small 3mm leds behind the clock lcd, also added a flat light diffuser cutout/made from a white plastic ice cream container.

Came up a treat , in the flesh this display looks totally/eveny lit in colour and brightness all over, just the crap pic with my rubbish camera made the centre look a bit lighter ( im suprised it even came up this good with my rubbish webcam camera ! ). Very happy with the results and will be re-doing the odo/dte lcd backlighting again soon.

I'll post up some document soon on how to mod the backlights for the lcd's with led's / for the clock and the odo/dte lcd's ;) .. cheers